With Security at Risk, a Push to Patch the Web – NYTimes.com While Internet service providers are racing to fix the problem, which makes it possible for criminals to divert users to fake Web sites where personal and financial information can be stolen, Mr. Kaminsky worries that they have not moved quickly enough. A new [...]

Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here… The best feature of the Internet is it allows uninterested students in reading to search [...]

Online articles lead to rapid scientific consensus, forgotten ideas The results of the explosion of easily available articles, according to Evans, is that “researchers can more easily find prevailing opinion, they are more likely to follow it, leading to more citations referencing fewer articles. As a side effect of this, a scientific consensus will typically [...]

Australian websites to get ratings for content, age Websites originating in Australia will soon be subject to a rating system that will tell users whether the content is appropriate for children of different ages You have to give the Australians’ credit.  But it’s a long time in the future when we are going to see [...]

Microsoft opens up Live Mesh | Beyond Binary – A blog by Ina Fried – CNET News.com It’s official, Live Mesh is now available.  No surprise that they opened it up a week after Apple’s Mobile Me was up and running.  Both of these options are solutions to computing in the cloud.  The Cloud?  Moving [...]